Book Draft – “Making Good Decisions” – Workbook for Volume 1 – Part V: Terms-of-Art Definitions: Page 10 of 12
This post for all readers continues the public peer-review of this book with page 10 of the Terms-of-Art definitions for this workbook (Vol.1 – Part V: The Template for Reading Research Papers).
A reader involved in the public peer-review of this book on Substack asked for a one-page document that would present the top-10 or so, bottom-line ideas from this book:
- The Epilogue for all five Part of Volume 1 summarizes 15 key ideas in full sentences and paragraphs.
- These Terms-of-Art definitions for Vol. 1- Part V: The Template for Reading Research Papers provide an opportunity to summarize key ideas from this workbook with single, related words.
- The list of Terms, shown in alphabetical order for each key idea, will grow with each one of these twelve post as new definitions become visible.
This creates a list of the top-10, bottom-line ideas from this book. Here is the updated list that includes Terms-of-Arts from Pages 1 to 10:
1- Start with a Model of Self:
o Amplification, Brains, Decision-Maker, Emulator, Motion, Perceptions, Predictions, …
2- Understand the Foundations:
a. Assumptions & Hypotheses, Concealed Evidence, Feet of Clay, (the) Forgotten Absent, Inputs from Primary Energy Reservoirs, Output to Residual Energy Converters, Primary Energy Converters (Productive Hosts), …
3- See the Incentives:
a. (the) Bandits, Business Ecosystem Template, Dominance Hierarchies, Flow, Foil in the Flow, (the) Helpless, (the) Intelligent, Johari Window Model, Known-Knowns, Known-Unknowns, Luck-compounding Machines, Potemkin Villages, Purpose, …
4- Take the View of the Individual Experience:
a. Ambiguity, Clinician [and Individual Clinical Ambiguity], Doubt, Ecological Rationality, Embodied Psychology, Exposures, Large World, …
5- Develop Tools, Checklists, and Processes:
a. “Checklist” (for Pattern-Matching), Descriptive Research, OODA-Loop, Path Dependency, Practice (for perfection in the presence of cause & effect), Practices, Predictive Research, Prescriptive Research, “Process” that Improve the Odds, Randomized Control Trials, …
6- Identify Biases from Willful Ignorance, Error & Deceit, and Make Corrections:
a. Bias, Error & Deceit, Evidence-based, Extensions of Man, False Reconstruction, Figure, Good Stories, Ground, Invisible Gorillas, Media (Hot/Cold), Misdirection, Music Rooms (& Pianos), Naivete, Named Item, Number Magic, Perspective, Precision, Probabilities, Randomness, Real Stories, …
7- Recognize the Applicability of General Solutions:
a. Deductive Inference, Ergodicity Economics, “Fast & Frugal” Heuristics Program, Growth Dynamics, Heuristics, Heuristics & Bias Program, Inductive Inference, Logic & Statistics Program, …
8- Document Domain-specific Alternatives:
a. Client-centric Planning, Expected Value Optimization, Growth Optimal Solutions/Selections, Lineage …
9- Validate the Power and Limits of Quantification:
a. Accuracy, AI/ML, Association, Big Data & types of Data, Certainty, Chances, Classification, Coherence, Conditional Probabilities, Confidence Interval, Confounding Variable, Counterfactuals, Difference, DAGs, Dispersion, Distribution, Effect, Estimate, Event, Expected Value, Interpretation, Quality, Random Variable, Rational, Regression, …
10- Decide when to “Trust Them”, “Show Me”, or “See for Yourself”:
a. Antifragile, Constructive Skepticism, Habitable Order, Meaning, Practical Significance, …
As readers saw in the earlier post, the Glossary list include both names of authors (in bold) as well as Terms-of-Art (in italics).
- Earlier posts presented the Author Profiles.
- This series of posts presents the definitions for the Terms-of-Art, at the rate of one page per post (with about 12+/- definitions per page).
This book, a collection of eleven workbooks in three volumes, gives readers “Tools”, “Checklists” & “Processes” to “See for Yourself” the (i) perspective, (ii) scientific domains, (iii) historical context, (iv) purpose, (v) methodology, (vi) methods, (vii) assumptions, & (viii) meaning of the research papers, books, & stories that compete for their attention.
The workbook for Volume 1 - Part V starts the printed publication schedule to give readers the summary & bottom-line of this book [The Template for Reading Research Papers] as a deliverable they can use immediately.
”CTRI by Francois Gadenne” writes a business book in three volumes, published serially on Substack for public peer-review. The book connects the dots of life-enhancing practices for the next generation, free of controlling algorithms, based on the lifetime experience of a retirement age entrepreneur, & continuously updated with insights from reading Wealth, Health, & Statistics research papers on behalf of large companies as the co-founder of CTRI.